The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1931, Page 1

soSraes ena es aa ee? s GReat May 1s ONCE sei lad Naa MY MAkcK aS} CAPITAL oe ” JOW U > ee Ae Dail Central Orga CSiexc t1-on so } — the Communist p) Interna Entered an secon at New Vark, Vol. VIII, No. 99: d-clune matter at the Past Office Y., ander the act of Surch 8, 1879 2 NEW YORK, FRID/ orker the-Coahunict ——™” Y, APRIL 24, 1931 WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Pacifie C In Two Party U.S.A. tional) Joast May Day Edition Sections—Section One CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Who Are the “Bandits’’”? EGARDING the charge by Hoover, that the Nicaraguan Army of Lib- eration, led by Sandino, are “bandits,” Congressman W. Ayres of Kansas who, incidentally, is for more intervention, acidentally exposes this lie while arguing for a “firmer” policy. He said: “We have been chasing the Sandinista forces, which may be de- signated either as rebels against the government imposed on them by ourselves, or as bandits. Invariably the people in power choose the latter designation for those who are in arms against them.” But we do not need to go to capitalist authority to prove the hypoc- risy of Hoover. His outrageous characterization of an oppressed people who have been fighting for 19 years against Yankee invasions as “bandits— ‘outside the civilized pale,” because they have killed eight or nine American agents of imperialism, is sufficiently answered by the hundreds and thous- | ands of dead Nicaraguans, men, women and children, massacred by in- | vading marines, whose bones are rotting in the soil of their native land! Who are these Americans, killed by soldiers under Sandino? They are Plantation bosses and slave-drivers of the Standard Fruit and Steamship Company, they are agents of the blood-suckers of Wall Street, backed by the invading Yankee marines. It is these agents of imperialism, armed and otherwise—it is Hoover himself who is the bandit! The Army of Liberation led by Sandine, is fully justified in killing every imperialist agent engaged in enslaving the Nicaraguan people. And in the measure in which Sandino is carrying out a policy of armed strug- gle to drive Yankee imperialism out of Nicaragau, he and his forces must | and will receive the enthusiastic support of the workers of the United States. We,-the American workers, know how hypocritical is Hoover's pre- tended concern for “American lives.” At the very moment he mouths this hypocrisy, nine other American citizens, Negro workers, are being railroaded to the electric chair at Scottsboro, Alabama! Five workers face death in a ‘noutrageous frame-up at Paterson! Mooney and Billings die | slowly in prison! Sacco and Vanzetti lie murdered. From the mines of Ludlow, Colorado, still echo the cries of 14 women and children murdered by the militia owned by Rockefeller! The countless victims of American capitalism rise from their grave to hurl back into the face of the hypocrite in the White House the chrge The workers of the United States daré not even approach the gates of the White House to demand bread for the millions of starving and semi-starving jobless, without meeting gas bombs, blackjacks, clubs and machine guns sent against them by this scoundrel who dares to call people fighting for national freedom “bandits!” Today, the Army of Liberation, commanded by Sandino, is in battle and is shedding its blood for national liberation. United States, support that struggle with every means at our command. While we have repeatedly pointed out the past vacillations of Sandino himself toward compromising the struggle; while we have criticized his failure to raise the material demands of the masses, such as land for the peasants; while we realize that the struggle can finally be won only by proletarian leadership headed by a Communist Party, we urge the work- ers of the United States to rally every possible aid to the armed struggle of “Murderer!” of Sandino’s Army of Liberation. How despicably false, slanderous and hypocritical Hoover's talk of “bandit” is; how vile the deceit about “withdrawal of marines,” seen not only in Nicaragua, but also in Haiti. marines have been slaughtering the Haitian people. sacre was late in 1929. “Peace’’—the peace of a cemetary, was established. ‘There were no more “bandits” and today there are none. But in spite of the promise made a year and a half ago, to withdraw American armed froces, they are still in Haiti! “threat of serious disorders.” When it comes, when the Haitian peasants and workers are no longer able to tolerate Yankee rule and rise in arms—as they must rise!—the unspeakble hypocrite in the White House will doubt- less blabber about “bandits!” Away with imperialist lies! shores! with imperialism! On May Day—and afterward, let the American workers raise the banner—Hands Off Nicaragua! Full support to the armed workers of Nicaragua to drive imperialist bandits from their All aid to the struggle of Sandino’s Army of Liberation! We, the workers of the can be For nearly 30 years Yankee Their last mas- And today there is a new Down FIGHTING SHOE, NEEDLE AND FOOD WORKERS MOBILIZING FOR MAY 1 Workers Will Rally by the Thousands to the Communist Party Demonstration After Union Square at Bronx Coliseum The shoe and leather workers of New York now engaged in bitter struggles against the bosses and the company union, socialist and their boot and Shoe agents won a number of strikes today and signed up for the union, the Columbia Slipper Co., Feifer Bros., W. Irween, and others, ‘The strikers are represented in the United Front May Day Conference and decided enthusiastically to par- ticipate in a body with their strike banners and slogans in the May Day demonstration. A strike was called today by the Shoe and Leather Work- ers’ Industrial Union in the Salick and Seamen Co. shop where the shop | committee elected by the workers was discharged. These strikers will also ‘march in.@ body in the May Day parade. They will join the monster mass demonstration and struggle on Union Square of the New York work- ing class against wage cuts, the brutal speed-up and long hours. The Shoo and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union’ has issued a nappeal to all shoe, slipper and leather workers, or- ganized and unorganized, to rally to Madison{Square at 12:30 p. m. on May Day and to the Bronx Coliseum after the parade. ‘The militant, fighting Food Work- ers’ Industrial Union now conducting 7 strikes against the long hours and miserable wages forced upon by the bosses and underworld A. F. L. and socialist racketeers, are mobilizing in greater numbers than ever before, for the May Day demonstration. Twenty- five thousand leaflets were issued by the militant union to all the food workers, The executive council of the union decided to have bands of music and placards. A mobilization meet- ing was called by the union, on Wednesday, April 29, to make final plans for the organized participation of the entire membership of the union, and for rallying the unorgan- ized food workers in the big food shops, hotels, restaurants and cafe- terias for a mighty display of work- ing class solidarity on May Day in struggle for unemployment insur- } and immediate relief, for equal and young workers, against the wage | | Slashing campaign of the bosses. The Food Workers’ Union is taking steps tonight to organize a strong defense corps to protect the marching lines of the thousands of food workers ex- pected to parade and participate in the demonstration in Madison Square jand march to Union Square. All next week meetings will be held in all the union shops and the various sections of the city to make final prepara- | tons for the demonstration. The | union is paying particular attention to Brooklyn where many strikes, led by the union, are in progress. The food strikers will make May First a mighty day of struggle and solidar- ity of the entire working class at Madison Square and Bronx Coliseum in the evening. Rally to the demonstration at Madi- son Square 12:30 p. m. March to Union Square. Mobilize in large numbers for the Communist Party May Day demonstration after the parade at Union Square at Bronx Coliseum, 177th St., Bronx. Nation- ally prominent speakers will talk on the great significance of this May Day as the day of mobilization of the international working class and the workers of America, against hunger, against capitalism, against the im- perialist intervention plot against the | Soviet Union, for the defense of the fatherland of the world’s working class, against colonic] oppression and imperialist mass murder of the work- ers and peasants of China, Nicaragua, Hondvras and al lthe colonies and semi-colonies under the iron heel of Yankee imperialism, for the destruc- tion of capitalism, for a workers’ and farmers’ government, Rally to the Bronx Coliseum. A splendid revolutionary program anda mass pageant has been arranged. Get your tickets in advance, ; don Johnson, William Pickens Hails United Struggle of White and Negro Workers to Save 9 Young WATIONAL OFFICERS paesioeny JE Srincame VICE-PRESiDENTS OswALO GARAISON ViLLAne frril 19, 193 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE 69 FiFTH AVENUE, NEw YORK ” TELEPHONE: ALGONQUIN 4.6548 hansas City, io. Dear Daily “orker:- HOARD OF DIRECTORS Many Waite Ovincro New York Rattinere cat Murphy. Joneph Prince Laud Charleston Ve 1G. Nover Jane ‘Asda Uiatenee Darrow Cleveland won “Harey E Dave Dero fre W. Jayne Frank Muro to I.L.D.. Negro Victims of Boss Court Lynch Verdict EXECUTIVE OFFICERS. Wacren Ware ACTING StCRETARY I am writing from Kansas City, where I have just seen a copy of The Daily “orker for April 16th and noted the fight which the workers are making, thru I.L.D., to prevent the Jud ice Jal massacre of Negro youth in Alabama. Enclosed 1s a small check for that cause. Please send it in enclosed stamped envelope. The promptness with which the white workers have moved to~ ward defending these helpless and innocent Negro boys, sons of black workers, is significant and prophetic. The only un ultimate salvation for black and white ~orkers is in their united defense, one of the other. Other causes and movements may do a good work, but all other causes are good only as preliminaries to that consummation. The one objective for final security is the absolute and unqualified unity and co-operation of ALL “ORKERS, of all the exploited masses, across all race and color lines and all other lines. In the present case the Daily “orker and the workers have moved,so far,more speedily ané effectively than all other agencies put together. If you do not prevent Alabama from committing these horrible murders, you will at least educate working people, white and black, to the danger of division and the ee for the Richmond Mae ke Sprinohelé Rev Bre Walter Topata Hon. “Arinar Carper vorroughe pansy Prot, George William Cob Charice Edeard: Romel Washi Nannie B Ton James ern “legro, see by the reports of the investigations of the need of union. workers. deatils fhru the lying daily press. They gave but that was the only ray, out of my experientes as a south- that I could make sanity out of the madness. I In either event it will be @ victory Enclosed 1g an article which I had -ritten on the mere “prob- abilities" of the case ~hen I received the first few meager details, vorkers* agents that 1 ras not so far ~rong, not wrong at all in the on that these children are innocent and that they NATIONAL LEGAL COMMITTEE Chairman Arthur B. SBingare Carepee Carrow ce conslusi Ayame wuas T. Speesal ‘Ceo Aemitant ENDORSED SY THE NATIONAL INFORMATION BUR: COND ANNUAL CONFERENCE—Pitwburgh Pa.—June 30 - July 5, 1931 “TWENTY: NEW YORK. — William Picken: Field Secretary of the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Colored People, in a letter to the Daily Worker, photosat copy of which is published in this issue, hails the promptness with which white and Negro workers under the leadership of the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Ne- gro Rights moved to the defense of the nine young Negro victims of the Scottsboro boss court lynch verdict. In his letter, Pickens admits that the only guarantee against the Negro id whit kers is the united front | : at Ge cause | Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Labor Defense of the mass revolutionary struggle led by the Communist Party and its press and the revolutionary mass or- ganizations. In a call upon the Negro masses to support the Scottsboro Defense Campaign, organized jointly by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Labor Defense, Mr. Pickens says: “This is one ac- casion for every Negro who has in- telligence enough to read, to send aid to you and to the LL.D.” While Pickens has come out in this letter in defense of the nine Scotts- boro victims, his organization still maintains an official silence in the face of this murderous frame-up and railroading of Negro boys to the elec- tric chair that amounts to open co- operation with the Southern boss lynchers on the part of J. E. Spin- gard, Jim Crow advocate who was re- cently elected president of the N. A. A. C. P., Walter White, Dr. Du Bois, Robert W. Bagnall, Daisy E. Lampkin, Herbert J. Seligman, Rev. John Wel- Rey, John Haynes Holmes and other officials of the N. A.A, C. P, Investigation of Work Among Harlem Unemployed Indicates That Drastic Corrections are Necessary (By ALFRED WAGENKNECHT) For the purpose of initiating local struggles and fighting for immediate relief for starving families, the New York district decided to concentrate in Harlem, the immense Negro terri- tory of New York City. I visited the Harlem membership branch of un- employed workers two weeks ago. The question of carrying on a neigh- F. S. U. MEET. TONIGHT. The Friends of the Soviet’ Union will hold an open membership meet- ing at Webster Hall tonight. Mike borhood investigation to ascertain the starvation conditions of Harlem families, to enter struggles against the city government for immediate relief for these families as part of a city-wide fight for food for the hun- gry, the supplying of a measure of relief for destitute families were framed. Very sincergly 7 213 FOURTH AVI This 18 one occasion for every ‘écro kam who has intelli-~ gence enough to read,to send aid to you and to I.L.D. Tours, ie teil Mother of Haywood Patterson onWay toN.Y.to Help Defense, Chatta. Ministers Alliance, Under Pressure of Bosse sand Their NAACP Tools Are Trying to Knife Defense CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., April 23.—Mrs. Claude Patterson, mother of Haywood Patterson, one of the nine Negro youth MICHIGAN, IND., OHIO JOBLESS BASE HUNGER |\Why the Bosses Fear May Day Demonstrations This Year And Why Every Worker Should Mobilize for A Gigantic Outpouring May 1st to Smash Wage Cut Drive and Fight Unemployment Why do the capitalists fe : the international revolutionary | demonstrations on May Ist? Why are they extending all aid to establish Labor Day as the official “labor holiday?” What is | Hoover’s purpose in proclaiming May Day as “Child Health | Day,” and attempting to have this day observed as “Child| {Health Day’ in many coun- DOAK ADMITS BIG BANKERS ARE FOR R.R. WAGE CUTS But Hides His Role In Pay Slashing WASHINGTON, April 23.—Secre- tary of Labor William N. Doak is ad- vancing the wage-cutting drive on the railroads by lying about it. The plans for pay cuts on all railroads has be- come so open that Doak was forced to say something about the matter. He admitted that the leading bank- ers who run the railroads are for Lwage. euts, but. Doak acw#ired the workers “there was nothing to it.” Appointed To Fool Workers. This is precisely the reason he was apointed to the position of Secretary of Labor. His jok is to keep the workers from realizing the danger while the wage cut drive is perfected and put into effect. “If there was such a thing as a properly fixed wage rate for the var- ious industries and trades,” Doak said, then there might be some reasons in {the suggested reductions.’ In other words, since wages are Deing cut every day and this process is effectively clashing the living standard of the worker, then everything is alright. | If wages were static, Dok explains, then a national wage Slash wouli be | veasonable, Doak To Execute Plan. | tries? May Day was established by | the American workers, and later adopted internationally by | the revolutionary working class or-| ganizations, as the day of struggle against capitalism for the betterment | of the conditions of the workers and | as a mass expression of the struggle | for the final overthrow of capitalism. | May Day is deeply rooted in the revolutionary traditions of the work- ers. It has a history of struggle, of victory, of successful mobilization, of international expression of solidarity This My Day the capitalists fear the May Day demonstrations more than ever before. This May Day the capitalist world is in a severe c Over 25,000,000 workers are unem- ployed throughout the capitalist world; 10,000,000 of them are out of work in the United States. ‘Thore is an international wage cut drive being ‘carried out, with the help of the so- cialists, and the reformist trade union leaders. In the Soviet Union this May Di the Five-Year Plan is rapid ng forward, building up Socialism, while the capitalist lands are shaken by cri- sis. Revolutions are breaking out in many of the colonial countries, in China, India, Nicaragua, Honduras— the Spanish monarchy has been over- thrown and the revolutionary work- ing class is beginning to strive for the leadership for the overthrow of cap- italism. In the United States the workers this May Day are faced with mass hunger and starvation. Wage cuts are ihcreasing. Every effort is being made to keep victims of the Scottsboro boss court frame-up, leaves here to- morrow afternoon for New York City to help the League of in mobilizing the workers to stop the legal murder of her son and the eight other boys. The hearing on the motion for a new trial in the Haywood Patterson case comes up on May 6. The parents of the Chatanooga boys were approached and threatened last night by the Ministers Alliance on whom pressure has been brought by the bosses and the N. A. A. C. P. in an attempt to get them to repudiate the I. L. D, All parents refused and today vigorously re-affirmed their faith in the defense work of the LL.D, Mr. Patterson told the preachers’ alliance that “an organization did not send two lawyers from New York just for a joke and that the I. L. D. had been honest from the very be- gining being the only organization or individual that ever came to the par- ents and discussed the case with them, and asked their support.” Mr. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) VICTIM'S MOTHER INHARLEM TONITE NEW ‘YORK. — Mrs. Patterson, mother of Haywood Patterson, one of the nine Scottsboro victims of boss justice, will arrive in the city from | Chattanooga today. She will be one | of the main speakers at the mass protest meeting this evening at &t.| Luke's Hall, 125 West 130th St. The) meeting is under the joint auspices of the League of Struggle For Negro Rights and the International Labor Defense. Allan Taub, New York I. L. D. at- torney who has just returned from the South where he was sent, to- gether with Joseph Brodsky to push an investigation of the frame-up of the nine Negro youngsters and or- ganize for their defense, will report on the case and the progress so far made in the fight for a new trial. Other speakers will be William Pa‘ Losing Instead of Winning Workers for May First and Relief Struggle the unemployed branch and support- ing organizations, was gone into in detail. An excellent discussion took place, which indicated that the un- employed workers present understood the methods to be followed, and four committees of two each were elected to traverse the several streets to be visited first, to become fully ac- quainted with the neighborhood. AN this was also conceived of as a part of the preparations for great.May I visited the Harlem branch of un- employed workers again two days ago. At the executive committee of the branch, at which the work un- dertaken in the two weeks was dis- cussed in detail, the following situa- tion came to light, (1) A meeting of all Party mem- bers who are unemployed was called, Out of 66 registered unemployed Party members, of which number about 20 were Negro workers, only 15 Doak could not deny the fact that |the American workers from demon- the banker-owners of the railroads | Strating May Day, together with the have detailed plan and Doak is | Tevolutionary workers in other coun- pledged to carry it through. In or-| ‘ties. May Day is a mobilization of der to save the face of the Hoover | ll the forces of the working class for administration which has repeatedly | Unemployment insurance, against declared it is for “maintaining wage | W48e cuts, and against imperialist | levels,” Doak issues a statement de-|W@t! It is a mass mobilization for | fending Hoover and himself. “The | the defense of the Soviet Union, for | administration has done everything | the expression of the workers in the that can be done to prevent the adop- | TeVolutionary struggle against capital- | tion of such (wage cutting) plans,” | ‘St. | Doak declared. This means that such} Every worker who sees the necessity plans have been definitely prepared, of a united struggle of all workers, with the help of Hoover and Doak, | Negro, white, foreign-born, against and now the capitalist government | unemployment and wage cuts, against is trying to appear as free from blame | imperialist war preparations, against in the eyes of the workers. | the threatened attacks on the Soviet | Doak who was general chairman of | Union must rally his shop mates and the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- | fellow workers for the largest out- men was specifically chosen as Sec- jretary of Labor at the order of the | railroad bankers with a view to put- |ting into effect the wage cut drive against the railroad workers. |terson, of the L. S. N. R., and who | hes just returned from Soviet Russia, C. A. Hathaway of the Communist | |Party, prosecutor in the recent mass trial against race hatred and Rich-| ard B. Moore national Negro director of the I. L. D, that sitended, 12 were Negro work- ers and 3 were white workers. | (2) About ten days ago 15 Party | members and members of the unem- ployed branch made house to house visits on 134th street. (3) Several | members of the executive + <mmittee of the unemployed branch stated that starving workers can not think | and therefore can not be won for | struggle and organization, their belts | are not tight enough as yet, and we | must not even’ indicate that the un- | employed branch will give a measure of food relief because that would be pure charity and would besides bring hundreds of workers to the branch for relief, (4) Workers call at the pouring the capitalists have ever seen in this country. The temper of the revolutionary struggle on May Day is watched by the capitalist class as | a gauge of the militancy of the work- | ers. All out on May Day! Down tools! Join the one day strike! Demon- strate under the leadership of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League. Scottsboro Defense Campaign. Friday Night. New York City, mass protest meeting at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 W. 130th St. Saturday Afternoon. New York City, protest parade at 3:30 o'clock from 140th St. and Lenox Ave., with demonstration at 110th St. and Fifth Ave. Saturday Night Philadelphia, Pa., mass protest meetings at corners of 6th and Gerard Avenue, Marshall and Par- rish Streets and Randolph and Poplar Sts. April 28, Chattanooga, Tenn., Scottsboro Defense Conference, with preced- ing mass meeting on April 27. Oklahoma City, mass protest meeting at Slaughters Hall, 2d and Stiles Sts. y monster wywervrens,] showed up at the meeting, Of the 1p ~AQONTINURD OF PAGE THEEE) _ enpgueeeemoe |’ MARCH ON MAY 1 MEETS Demonstrations Rally Al For Demand That the Hungry Be Relieved Intensive Organizatior \Hold Michigan United Front Conference May 10 Three state hunge marches, with a possi bility of another. are now arranged for May. With the mass dem- ometrations of emvloy- ad and uremnloved workers on Mav First, an international dem- -'aatto4 ty averw in- dustrial city of the world te back them, delegates endorsec by the masses on one day May First will march on the capitals of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan There is an attempt to organize a march in Illinois, These are all states of heavy in- du: coal and iron in. Indiana and Ohio, metal mining, steel and the stockyards in Illinois, with a large diversified fac system in all other industries in all four states. Masses Hungry. The working class population in al of these states has been hit hard the depression. Millions are entire!) unemployed, millions more are ¢14 part time, wage cu speed-up is becoming unt lief is being cut off ing class is almost to the policy of st masses into subjec through a terrific wage cuts. openly commit: | ing the toili + General Wage Cul Cones The steel mill owners of the 1 honing Valley in Ohio announce: they are in conference as to the ex- act amount and “exact time of (CONTINUED ON GENERAL MOTORS RECOGNIZES. USSR Vice Pres. Admits Five Year Plan Is Winning NEW YORK.—Open recognition of the success of the Five Year Plan of industrial construction and socializa- tion of agriculture in the Soviet Union was accorded by James D. Mooney, vice-president of the Gen- eral Motors Corporation, in a speech over WEAF and NBC radio chain. Mooney repeated statements made in Paris last October, that “the econ- omic thinking of the Russian govern- ment as exhibited in its plannins and acting is difficult to find flaw: in.” “The fact is that Russia is in a position to furnish some things we need, and which she is in a better position to give us than we are able to supply ourselves. On the other hand, we have many things which she needs, and which we are in the best position to supply. Obviously, then, the situation is solved to the best effect when we set up with Russia to trade in these things There is no danger for us in this, provided it is intelligently handled. On the other hand, there is a great benefit to be derived.” Forced to Deal. Mooney Is talking in the interests of his company, forced by capitalist crisis to deal with the Soviet Union no matter if it does build up a sys- tem which will stand as a challenge to capitalism and inspire workers in all countries to do likewise. Under the circumstances he has to admit the truth of the socialist etories being won on the indus- rial front in the U. S. S. R., and seeks to fool himself and his audi- tors with the idea 50- PAGE THREE? that a great 5 cialized construction in Russia will not harm capitalism. In his own company Mooney prac- tices the most ruthless speed-up, {lays off men recklessly whenever | they can be spared and plans wage- Dubs, eer My i as ae